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„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“

Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7

Michael Roberts 9h ago

@johl Funny thing is, that code isn't copyrightable (in the United States, anyway), as it's been generated by Claude Code.

Jens Ohlig 9h ago

@vivtek Yes, that makes it even funnier.

Francisca Sinn 7h ago

@johl @vivtek Link to the recent write up in case anyone’s wondering why…

https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted.

The Verge

Jamie Gaskins 7h ago

@fsinn I came straight to the replies and am so glad to find you in here for the exact same reason!

Francisca Sinn 7h ago

@jamie @johl @vivtek Great minds and all that. 👊🏻😁

@vivtek @johl nobodys ever been prosecuted for sending false takedown notices

so its really all to the advantage of fascists

Michael Roberts 8h ago

@bweller @johl For real.

Neale Grant 6h ago

@vivtek @johl Generative AI consists of one proposition: there are in-groups that copyright protects but does not bind, and everyone else, whose work is fair game for stealing.

Michael Roberts 5h ago

@nealeg Oh, well done!
@johl

ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ 5h ago

@vivtek @johl Also, it was published along with a license file. You can't publish something, and then say: sorry, mistake, and unpublish it. It was released with a license for using it.

noplasticshower 9h ago

@johl ah, irony

Dave Dee 9h ago

@johl Just to be cynical - and accurate at the same time - the current legal situation in the US is that law is now shaped towards donors.

So while this argument could be correct at this current point in time and legislation, we'd be just a few donations away from new legislation in favor of the GenAI companies...

Bruno Nicoletti 9h ago

@johl If the code was 100% generated by LLMs are they claim, it can’t be copyrighted according to US law. So surely they can take a hike on that?

@bjn @johl afaik, as of 2025 copyright does not require „not being generated by AI“ but notable parts of being designed and governed by human rather. Therefore, the source code may very well be protected.

Chinga la migra! 🍉🌈6h ago

@tomkyle @bjn @johl they claim claude wrote itself unless once again an A.I. company is lying and once again "A.I." means African.Indian.

Crispy Gnome Chomsky 6h ago

@bjn @johl The way a takedown works is that a claim is made, the takedown is implemented, and the target then has the opportunity to appeal. Generating the appeal takes target resources. Evaluating the appeal takes platform resources. I think that rarely ends with justice.

John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿7h ago

@johl 🤣🤮

Mark T. Tomczak 7h ago

@johl Claiming that Anthropic doesn't have a copyright to the code because it's AI-generated and simply refusing the takedown request would be the baller move here. At the very least, it could push the whole story into a discovery that Anthropic doesn't want to participate in.

Matt Palmer 5h ago

@mark Microsoft-owned GitHub is unlikely to be complicit in any kind of baller move, especially against another member of the stochastic parrot club.

DJGummikuh 7h ago

@johl how the fuck is this possible

Koen Hufkens, PhD 7h ago

@johl If you sell stolen goods you are technically a fence. So this makes Anthropic what in the first place ... ?

tribactam 5h ago

@koen_hufkens a garden?

@johl
Isn't it an opportunity for some greedy lawyers to start a class-action against M$?

kira for scale 6h ago

@johl well, we know it was real now, lmao

Krypt3ia 6h ago

Sir David Nielsen 6h ago

@johl @briankrebs so they do know what copyright is.

Toni Aittoniemi 5h ago

@johl The fucking irony

Zło To 🏴‍☠️ ᵗʰʳᵉᵉᶠᶦᵈᵈʸ 5h ago

@johl that's ok, I've made a local git clone

BurritoSommelier 4h ago

@mattesilver yeah that genie is not going back in the bottle.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️4h ago

🤣 🤣 🤣

@johl The "takedown" was "committed" in that chatgptprojects repo so the previous version with Claude's src/ folder can be checked out with Git.

konayuki 1h ago

@johl Ironic